“A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.”

“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”

“how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!”

“I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored”

“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”

“Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence”

“The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.”